College suicides national epidemic

A semester and a half into his college career at FGCU, Daniel Langfelder killed himself in his dorm room on February 2, 2010. The freshman had been battling depression and bad reactions to a number of different medications used to treat that depression.

Cornell University student Rami Bechara crosses the Suspension Pedestrian bridge over the Fall Creek Gorge on the university's North campus in Ithaca, N.Y. on Tuesday, March 16, 2010. A rose, at right, was placed on the bridge in memory for Cornell University Junior Matthew Zika, 21, of Lafayette, Ind., who fell from the bridge Friday, March 12, 2010. Zika's body has still not been recovered. Zika was the third student to have fallen to his death from a campus bridge in one month. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)

This 2006 photo provided by William Kim shows Daniel Kim, who committed suicide in 2007 while attending college at Virginia Tech. The issue of when colleges should notify parents their adult children may be suicidal remains fraught with legal, medical and ethical dilemmas. College policies, state laws and professional codes of conduct vary widely, and occasionally conflict. (AP Photo/Courtesy of William Kim)

In this Dec. 22, 2011 photo, William Kim poses for a portrait in Washington. His son Daniel Kim committed suicide in 2007 while attending college at Virginia Tech. The issue of when colleges should notify parents their adult children may be suicidal remains fraught with legal, medical and ethical dilemmas. College policies, state laws and professional codes of conduct vary widely, and occasionally conflict. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Thurston Avenue Bridge, which crosses Fall Creek, is seen on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 in Ithaca, N.Y. Three Cornell students have fallen to their deaths from campus bridges in the past month - two from this one. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)

A semester and a half into his college career at FGCU, Daniel Langfelder killed himself in his dorm room on February 2, 2010. The freshman had been battling depression and bad reactions to a number of different medications used to treat that depression.

A semester and a half into his college career at FGCU, Daniel Langfelder killed himself in his dorm room on February 2, 2010. The freshman had been battling depression and bad reactions to a number of different medications used to treat that depression.

A Cornell University student walks across the Suspension Pedestrian bridge along the college's North campus in Ithaca, NY, Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Cornell University, an Ivy League school known for its spectacular gorges and haunted by a reputation for suicides, took the extraordinary step of posting lookouts on bridges and going door-to-door to check on students after three undergrads plunged to their deaths in the past month. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)